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Corel Matters

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#43918From: Jack L. ChalkerMar 24, 1993 1:20 AM
Well, speak and it shall be so. Care package from Corel came today. Wish I could show THIS to some of the Bombay crowd–then they'd know what a beta really was. Oy–bet I have to reinstall Windows from scratch when THIS one's over!
#44025From: Edward L. WaldorphMar 25, 1993 3:16 AM
Jack: Mine also arived, special messenger overnite. Have played with it a little and found a couple of strange things. When I have time to read the manual I'll play with some of the new features. As for reinstalling Windows it only wrote a couple of files to the main directory, but hte docs say it writes 4.5 megs of files to the System directory. I haven't looked yet. What I did was to copy my \Windows and \System directories to another drive, change AUTOEXEC.BAT to point there, then install DRAW!. Even tho it made backups of the WIN.INI and PROGMAN.INI files I don't have to worry. I just change my .BAT path back to the old directory and it's as if 4.0 never existed. THis way I can easily continue working and switch back and forth at will. -Ed
#44149From: Jack L. ChalkerMar 26, 1993 4:14 AM
Heck, all I did was install it to a different drive and directory. The two don't seem to conflict and it puts everything in its own named directory. I have a strict policy that's even more strict with betas: other than reading the "what we already know is wrong or missing" parts, the absolute LAST thing I do is read the manual. How can I make it crash and do bizarre things if I follow instructions?